You are pretty much the same as my dad. Retired at 56 on a brilliant police pension, now had 30 years of it. Arguably many things in life are better now then for those who were born in the 1940'… (View Post)

I don't believe that's true. Things such as knee and hip replacement are giving older people much better quality of life. Cancer treatments have improved so that more than 50% of newly diag… (View Post)

I didn't say that. I am questioning the 'carpet bombing a major hospital' as I don't recall this. (View Post)

The danger of life expectancy as 'how long can I expect to live" is that for most of human history its been skewed by high infant mortality. Thus people assume that there were no old people… (View Post)

Is that an event that you can give a link for? The hospital story in Gaza was a really odd one - the building didn't look that big for a start. (View Post)